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Zaid · Software Engineer

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Summary

Systems-oriented engineer with experience across distributed backends, cloud infrastructure, AI-native tooling, and full-stack product development. Built and shipped production systems at scale - real-time trading infrastructure for 350k+ traders at IG, campaign platforms processing millions of events at Absinthe, and a live phone agent at Orqys with per-turn latency and cost tracing.

Experience

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Founder, CEO/CTO

Orqys · Bangalore, India

Apr 2026 - Present
  • Built an AI voice-agent platform for car dealerships end-to-end: telephony, speech pipeline, CRM, and instrumentation. Live in production on a paid pilot with the world's largest Hyundai dealer group (62 outlets), with a $60K committed annual pipeline across four dealer groups
  • Traced every call end to end: a timeline from the WebSocket accept through first audio to call end, per-turn perceived latency attributed to STT, LLM and TTS, and unit cost measured from production at $0.02/min, with totals that report null rather than a made-up number when a component is missing
  • Cut per-turn latency by 1.2s by patching the framework's STT finalization gap, and moved a 12-second cold import out of the call path that had made the first caller after every restart hear silence
  • Architected a real-time voice pipeline (Python, FastAPI, Pipecat, WebSockets) over 8kHz telephony - 13 Indian languages including code-mixed Hinglish, swappable STT/LLM/TTS engines, 300ms p50 speech-to-speech reply latency
  • Built the dealer CRM (Next.js, TypeScript, Drizzle, PostgreSQL) and a dual-service GCP architecture with CI/CD that drains live calls before deploys and gates on generated migrations
  • Owned the customer lifecycle: interviewed 15-20 of Bangalore's largest dealer groups, demoed to dealership owners and GMs, closed the paid pilot, and embedded with the dealer's team to translate front-desk workflows into agent flows
Software Engineer

Absinthe Labs · NYC, US (Remote)

Oct 2025 - Mar 2026
  • Owned the core campaign and incentives platform end-to-end at a Web3 growth company with 10M+ users - 100+ production features across distributed backends, identity verification, and high-throughput data pipelines
  • Engineered distributed ingestion systems handling millions of submissions with concurrency-safe processing and rate limiting
  • Built a CDXP end-to-end - funnel analytics over ~2M user events with drop-off detection, cohort segmentation, and dashboards that surface conversion bottlenecks in real time
  • Built an AI-powered website editor inside the platform - natural-language edits, live preview, and structured diff commits, alongside a reputation-based identity verification system using non-transferable NFTs
  • Reduced infrastructure costs from $9,000/month to $500/month (94% reduction) by moving a server-rendered Next.js app off AWS Amplify onto 8-9 containers behind Caddy, with a shared Redis cache replacing per-container caches, release-tied invalidation with rolling restarts, and a DNS cutover under live traffic
Full Stack Developer

IG Group · Bangalore, India

Sept 2024 - Sept 2025
  • Migrated on-prem Spring Boot trading systems to AWS using Terraform - 35% cost reduction, 99.99% uptime, sub-50ms latency for 350k+ traders
  • Built distributed Kafka pipelines and WebSocket services for real-time trading data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
  • Deployed Spring Boot microservices on Nomad processing 10k+ Kafka events daily with zero downtime
Co-founder & Engineering Lead

Bloom · London, UK (Remote)

Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
  • Co-founded multi-tenant apprenticeship platform for African markets - 1,200+ users, 50+ programs, 15+ partner organizations
  • Designed multi-tenant backend with Supabase RLS, PostgreSQL triggers, and real-time messaging via LISTEN/NOTIFY
  • Integrated Paystack Split Payments for automated mentor payouts with regional compliance
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
  • Built React/Next.js components and Node.js REST endpoints for a real-time order-tracking platform used by manufacturers and transporters, with Google Maps and WebSocket live vehicle updates

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, React, Next.js, Node.js

Infrastructure & Data

AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, Nomad, PostgreSQL, dbt, GraphQL

Tools & Platforms

Git, Supabase, Hasura, Vercel, Linux, CI/CD

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Aug 2020 - July 2024

Projects

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Orchis

AI-native engineering ops that converts tickets into production-ready PRs via multi-agent orchestration. Sold to 2 startups.

Twiqr

Semantic search over your contacts - ask your network questions in plain English. 4 paying customers in the first 2 weeks.

Wispr Flow

Local-first voice-to-text for macOS using Whisper + Apple MLX. Sub-300ms latency, fully offline.

Zbrain

LLM-maintained personal and shared second brain. Raw notes in via Telegram, structured wiki pages out. Live at /brain.

Neurovid

Neuroscience-inspired engagement predictor for video. FastAPI + Next.js + R3F brain viz with a swappable signal pipeline.

Daddy Recorder

Free Mac desktop recorder - screen, webcam, and mic captured in a single pass with a cinematic cursor spotlight. Open-source alternative to Screen Studio.

Portfolio OS

This site. Reads my wiki via git submodule and renders an Obsidian-style graph - one unified content system across blog, projects, and brain.

Bloom

Co-founded multi-tenant apprenticeship platform for African markets. 1,200+ users, 50+ programs, split payments, real-time messaging.

Neploy

One-click deployment platform for Next.js - auto-detects framework, containerizes, and ships to AWS. Archived; engine lives on as Build Service.

Graviti Tracker

Real-time logistics tracking with WebSocket-powered live vehicle and order updates across 100+ manufacturers and transporters.